The Traveler's Guide to the Astral Plane by Steve Richards

Author:Steve Richards
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609259853
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

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The World of Boundless Light

Robert Crookall, who has written several books about astral projection, believes there is a ‘Hades belt’ surrounding the earth through which one must pass on the way to what he calls ‘Paradise conditions’ A projector emerges first into the ‘Hades belt,’ which is called that because it resembles the ‘Hades’ of the Greeks, then crosses what appears to be a watery zone. This, he thinks is the reason the Greeks held that the souls of the dead had to cross the River Styx. This watery vision may take the form of a river, an ocean, a column of water vapour or a fog, but in each case the idea of water is present. If one makes it through this watery area, one finds oneself in a ‘world of boundless light’1

This idea is so logical that I suspect it is probably true. We do not know, of course, just why there would be such a ‘Hades-belt’ or why one would have a vision of water or mist upon leaving it, but we do know that people have these experiences. The only question is whether they have them necessarily in that order.

As for the ‘world of boundless light'—and I am using a Buddhist term here—we have too many accounts from too many people for there to be any doubt that it exists.

One person who was regressed under hypnosis to the period between the end of his last lifetime and the beginning of this, said, ‘I'm conscious of light everywhere. I seem to be wherever I think about. Souls are all around, and of course we can communicate. How? We just know!’2

A railroad engineer in Jacksonville, Florida, who had an accident while unloading a railroad car, says,

I saw a medium-sized person standing at my right hand clothed in white with a bright countenance, beaming with intelligence. I knew what he wanted in an instant, although he put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Come with me.’ We moved upward, and a little to the south-east, with the speed of lightning, as it were. I could see the hills, buildings, trees, and roads as we went up side by side until they vanished out of our sight. As we passed on, this glorious being that was with me told me he was going to show me the bright heavenly world. We soon came to a world of light and beauty, many thousand times larger than this earth, with at least four times as much light. The beauties of this place were beyond any human being to describe. I was seated by the tree of life on a square bunch of what appeared to be green velvet moss, about eighteen inches high. There I saw many thousand spirits clothed in white and singing the heavenly songs. . . . It was the sweetest song I have ever heard. I told my attendant that it was the first time I had ever been perfectly at rest in my life.

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